The return of the omniscient narrator : authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction

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    • Dawson, Paul

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The return of the omniscient narrator : authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction

Paul Dawson

(The theory and interpretation of narrative series)

The Ohio State University Press, c2013

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction
  • Omniscience and narrative authority
  • The direct address and the ironic moralist
  • Prolepsis and the literary historian
  • Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller
  • Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator
  • Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration
  • Paralepsis and omniscient character narration
  • Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model
  • Conclusion

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